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So if your shot didn't match your weapon you were poorly-regulated, and if it did you were well-regulated? I think I'm begining to see the light, maybe!

I don't doubt that you're right, but do you have a link for this?

Militia - Got Liberty?

I read an editorial by Walter Williams one time where he said "Well Regulated" meant "Well Equipped". I think he made the point that a "Regulation" uniform meant that everyone was dressed appropriatly.

To be without a part of your military equipment, is to be "non-Regulation".

No link, just dusty parts of my once well educated mind.

Old history, seldom taught today. In the early part of the war at least, often only the first rank had a gun. Second and third had shot and powder, maybe, and an axe or other farm implement. If the first rank fell, the second or third would pick up the gun or rifle and carry on.

Most had shot for a musket. American made rifles were a smaller caliber. How much would it suck to pick up a beautiful Kentucky from a fallen comrade and have a bag of musket balls thre sizes too small.

Well regulated also sometimes referred to clocks that were so well made that they kept good time without constant adjustment, but my theory, as unsupported as it is, makes good sense.

If everyone had the same weapon, even if there weren't enough, the militia was better prepared.

There's plenty of posters here who can add to this.